Artist · 9 prints
Alfred Kubin Prints
About Alfred Kubin
Alfred Kubin was an Austrian draughtsman, illustrator and writer, born on 10 April 1877 in Leitmeritz, Bohemia, now Litoměřice in the Czech Republic. He had a troubled youth, including an unhappy apprenticeship to a photographer, before moving to Munich in 1898 to study art. There he discovered the work of Odilon Redon, James Ensor and Max Klinger, which deeply affected him. He was linked with the Blue Rider group of artists and showed with them in 1912. From 1906 he lived quietly at a manor house in Zwickledt, in Upper Austria, where he died in August 1959.
Kubin's ink drawings are dark, dreamlike and often frightening: death, strange beasts and shadowy figures loom out of dim, misty settings. In 1909 he published his only novel, The Other Side, set in an oppressive imaginary land. From 1903 he illustrated books, choosing writers drawn to the uncanny, among them Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In 1938 the Nazis declared Alfred Kubin's work "degenerate", but he kept working through the war.
Alfred Kubin prints: reproductions of the ink drawings the Austrian Symbolist Alfred Kubin made in the early 1900s. The collection includes Man (1902), The Horror (1902), The Last King (1902), The Plague and The Way to Hell.
This selection concentrates on Kubin's early dark drawings: lone figures, giant heads, monsters, plague and death, set in empty, misty spaces and drawn in grey, black and brown wash. The dated works in the selection are from 1902. Man is also offered as a pair with Every Night a Dream Visits Us.
The monochrome drawings suit studies, libraries, hallways and reading rooms, and they work well in a group on a dark or neutral wall. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
